The Dark Knight has passed the 300 million mark in domestic ticket says in ten days, making a new record for quickest grossing film. Predictions say it could make 400 million in 18 days and could even possibly surpass the 600 million record set by Titanic ten years earlier. That would be awesome! The highest grossing movie of all time could be a Batman movie. I’m doing my part, having just back from seeing it again, heck even The Patient One has seen it several times and she doesn’t even really like superhero movies. That’s how good a movie it is. Here’s hoping it makes it.
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Apparently the new Hulk movie The Incredible Hulk, which is not a sequel or a reboot of the franchise but is somehow both according to the director Louis Letterier, has some Marvel character cameos in it. A lot of hoopla has been made about Robert Downey, Jr.’s 30 second appearance as Tony Stark at the end of the movie, one online reviewer commenting that he steals the whole movie (which isn’t such a difficult feat for Downey, it’s practically his hobby). But there is also a cameo by the star spangled avenger himself, Captain America. But according to Letterier on Collinder.com it’s a hidden cameo that you have to look for to see. Huh?
Hollywood is once again trying to make a feature film version of Frank Herbert’s classic novel, Dune. His son Brian is co-producing with Kevin Misher and Brian Anderson. The script is to be written by Frank Zetumer and directing chores will be handled by Peter Berg. Though I’m sure the special effects will be awesome, I have doubts that the new film will have the depth of character or thought provoking issues of the SciFi Channel mini-series, but if this is the start of a film series that will see all of the books adapted, I’ll be happy.
